Richard Vokes

Jun 7, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Jean Allman |Justin Pearce |Richard Vokes |Derek Peterson

On February 24, 1966, a military coup d’état orchestrated by the police and the army overthrew Kwame Nkrumah. The event unfolded in Nkrumah’s absence, with the prior knowledge and approval, and likely the assistance, of the United States and Great Britain. The president was on a peace mission to bring an end to the brutal war in Vietnam. The coup launched Ghana—Africa’s Black Star—into a quarter century of political instability.